by Thierry Jonquet · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070490004
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«La bête et la belle» is a crime novel by Thierry Jonquet, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (181 pages, in French).
The story centers on Léon, an ugly and dirty old man who finally finds a friend, although that friend is disturbed and may become dangerous. The novel, with its raw and direct style, explores friendship, marginality and human nature within French noir.
The novel was originally published in 1985 in Gallimard's Série Noire collection.
Aimed at fans of French crime fiction and stories about marginalized characters.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
